View from 8A – Rain Gauges

This picture moves a bit further east to somewhere in the eastern New Mexico or west Texas area. The landscape changes at this point, moving from the desert of the west to a less arid, more fertile area dominated by large, round irrigated fields.

Here in central Texas, we’re in the middle of the longest drought in local memory – we’ve had effectively no rain this spring – so the different brown and green circles here reminded me of huge gauges.

Evan, they ended up clear after a lot of curve tweaking in Photoshop. I may post a couple of the originals over on the blog and a tutorial on cleaning them up since they definitely started out looking a lot different from the final versions.